·Friends
of the British Cemetary, Elvas
- a registered charity whose long-term aim is to produce a fund that will
ensure the Cemetery’s maintenance and protection in
the future. Elvas is one of the oldest British
Military Cemeteries in existence. It holds only five known graves but two of
these are the only marked graves of the thousands of British soldiers who
fell at the battle of Albuera and another is the
sole marked grave of the thousands who fell in the three sieges of Badajoz